vSAN Availability Part 12 – Data Protection and Disaster Recovery — via JeffHunter.info
This is the final article in my vSAN Availability blog series. To wrap things up, I thought it made sense to briefly discuss data protection, replication, and disaster recovery.
vSAN Design Considerations — via VCDX133.com
I have gone through the vSAN 6.2 Design and Sizing Guide, the vSAN 6.2 Network Design Guide and the vSAN 6.2 Stretched Cluster & 2 Node Guide (230+ pages) and aggregated all of the design decisions, design considerations and best practices into one page of bullet points that is easy to consume.
vSAN Named Server-Based Storage Product of the Year by Storage Magazine/SearchStorage.com — via VMware Radius
VMware vSAN 6.2 was selected the Gold winner in the Server-Based Storage category of the Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com 2016 Products of the Year award.
v101tv – vSAN Configuration — via Tim’s Tech Thoughts
Now that the VCSA (vCenter Server Appliance) is installed and networking is configured on our hosts, it’s time to setup vSAN and go over some of the options.
Designing vSAN Networks – Why Should I Use the Distributed Switch? – via Virtual Blocks
The vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) is a powerful, but often misunderstood technology that is included with VMware vSAN. This post will review some of my favorite settings on the VDS, and how you can use them to get better control, performance, and visibility into your virtual SAN cluster. While it is most known for the ability to create port groups that exist on all hosts with a simple click, it also has a lot of lesser known but incredibly powerful functions that will aid the vSAN administrator.
vSAN and SRM RPO and RTO — via Virtual Blocks
A question came up recently from a customer that went like this: “I am looking for an active/active configuration for disaster avoidance and disaster recovery with a recovery time objective of 0 minutes and a recovery point objective of 0 minutes. Is this something I can achieve with VMware vSAN and/or Site Recovery Manager (SRM)?” It is not the first time I have heard this question so it naturally made sense to write a blog article. Let’s dig in…
VMware vSAN 6.2 wins 2016 Storage Products of the Year gold in the server-based storage category — via SearchStorage.com
The server-based storage Product of the Year gold award goes to VMware vSAN 6.2, which added dedupe, compression, QoS and erasure coding.
Designing vSAN Networks – Dedicated or Shared Interfaces? – via Virtual Blocks
Every week my top vSAN questions tend to concentrate around networking design. A lot of questions center on if it is ok to share physical interfaces for multiple purposes.
vSAN all hosts down senario – via vSkilled.com
The worst case scenario in a VMware vSAN cluster is all hosts down. A situation where no sysadmin wants to find themselves in. Panic & frustration quickly follow suit. Despite all the safety features built into vSAN it is designed to tolerate failures within it’s failure domains, not an entire vSAN cluster outage.
Big Switch Amasses Help for Containers and vSAN – via SDxCentral
Big Switch Networks’ Big Cloud Fabric version 4.0 adds integration with container orchestration and features for VMware’s vSAN
VMware emphasizes all-flash in VSAN 6.5 licensing changes – via TechTarget
VSAN 6.5 users can take advantage of all-flash with a Standard license but still need a higher option if they want deduplication and compression.
Top 5 Q&A: Getting More out of vSAN – Session 1 – via Virtual Blocks
In 2017, we kicked off Getting More Out of vSAN, an ongoing technical webcast series led by vSAN experts and designed to support you, our customers, with deployment and operation of vSAN. This webcast series is unique because of the interactive, live Q&A session at the end, where you can voice your concerns, provide feedback, and get your questions answered live by the vSAN product team!
Lucky 7k, go vSAN! – via Yellow Bricks
VMware announced the Q4 earnings last night, one of the things I was most interested about was how vSAN did in Q4. Here is what was announced yesterday, for those interested in more detail check the full earnings call. (Hint, it isn’t just vSAN doing well.)
The vSAN Deepdive
Learn more about vSAN’s value propositions, use cases and customers in this great educational video.
VMware Reports 4Q & Full-Year Earnings & vSAN Hits 7K Customers – StorageReview.com
Not only is VMware reporting some terrific earnings numbers, they are also announcing 7,000 customers for the Hyper-Converged, software powered infrastructure solution vSAN.
VMware: New Report Names vSAN #1 in HCI Purchases or Evaluations – via DABCC.com
A recent report from technology research and advisory firm Evaluator Group notes that hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) solutions continue to gain traction in the market. The report notes that VMware vSAN was the #1 HCI solution purchased or evaluated by a wide margin of organizations surveyed (63 percent). Dell-EMC VxRail, powered by VMware vSphere and vSAN, ranked second in purchases or evaluations according to respondents.
Two host stretched vSAN cluster with Standard license? – via Yellow Bricks
I was asked today if it was possible to create a 2 host stretched cluster using a vSAN Standard license or a ROBO Standard license. First of all, from a licensing point of view the EULA states you are allowed to do this with a Standard license:
Marriott Evolves the Guest Experience with VMware
Learn how digital workspaces transform businesses at http://www.vmware.com/products/digital-workspace.html. As more people rely on digital tools to book accommodations and other hotel services, Marriott extended its infrastructure to the public cloud and enhanced guest services using an integrated compute, network and storage environment supported by VMware. By modernizing its data center environment with VMware solutions that build on existing tools and skill sets, Marriott accelerated services time to market and adopted a scalable, cost-effective strategy to support growth, while empowering employees with the latest digital capabilities.
vSAN Availability Part 11 – Stretched Cluster Failure Scenarios – via JeffHunter.info
Previous articles have covered how vSAN responds to and recovers from various environmental failures in a standard (non-stretched) cluster. This article provides concise coverage of similar environmental failures in a stretched cluster environment.
